Can auxiliary variables be used in Markov chain Monte Carlo methods?

Oct 1, 2019 ... Adjustment of the Auxiliary Variable(s) for Estimation of a Finite Population Mean. Language: English. Keywords: model based approach; percent ... auxiliary variable given a set of other Z variables already in an imputation model, similar to the conditional partial R indicators of Schouten et al. (201 ... Auxiliary variables are used in multiple imputation (MI) to reduce bias and increase efficiency. These variables may often themselves be incomplete. Oct 7, 2020 ... Topic 33: Auxiliary Variables (PETARS, Chapter 5) ... Captions may be available for this content for accessibility purposes. They may not always ... A new family of estimators is proposed for estimating the population mean with auxiliary information on the sample mean and the rank of the auxiliary variable. . The variables in Y are called auxiliary variables. An auxiliary variable y is called dependent if and only if in the first item above all extensions a0 ... Poster Knowledge Distillation with Auxiliary Variable. Bo Peng, zhen fang, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu. Hall C 4-9. The new auxiliary datasets contain data derived from the regular FARS/GES variables using NCSA analyti- cal data classifications. These classifications are ... Apr 17, 2018 ... I have three ordinal variables relating to public spending preferences that are all strongly correlated. One of them is missing around a 103 observations, ... Dec 30, 2015 ... ... auxiliary variable information. In order to evaluate efficiency of the introduced estimator, we first review some estimators and study the ...